Gian Maria Volonté
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Gian Maria Volonté (9 April 1933 – 6 December 1994) was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (credited in the USA as "Johnny Wels") and For a Few Dollars More. In Italy and much of Europe, he was notable for his roles in high-profile social dramas depicting the political and social stirrings of Italian and European society in the 1960s and 1970s, including four films directed by Elio Petri - We Still Kill the Old Way (1967), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1971), The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Todo modo (1976). He is also recognized for his performances in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (1970) and Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco & Vanzetti (1971). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gian Maria Volonté, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
as Ramón Rojo
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
as El Indio
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
as Vogel
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
as Dottore
Operation Ogre (1979)
as Izarra
The Assassination (1972)
as Sadiel
We Still Kill the Old Way (1967)
as Professore Paolo Laurana
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)
as Lulù Massa
Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
as Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Girl with a Suitcase (1961)
as Piero Benotti
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
as Dr. Cristo Bedoya
A Bullet for the General (1967)
as Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'
The Abyss (1988)
as Zenone
The Magnificent Cuckold (1964)
as Assessore
Face to Face (1967)
as Professor Brett Fletcher
Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
as Bizanti
The Four Days of Naples (1962)
as Stimolo
We Are Cinema (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Hercules and the Captive Women (1961)
as Re di Sparta
Lady of the Camelias (1981)
as Plessis
For Love and Gold (1966)
as Teofilatto dei Leonzi
Wind from the East (1970)
as The Northern Ranger
Wake Up and Die (1966)
as Inspector Moroni
The Witch (1966)
as Fabrizio
Journey Beneath the Desert (1961)
as Tarath
Giordano Bruno (1973)
as Giordano Bruno
The Mattei Affair (1972)
as Enrico Mattei
Lucky Luciano (1973)
as Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
The Bandit (1969)
as Gramigna
Zénon the Rebel (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Open Doors (1990)
as Giudice Vito Di Francesco
The Death of Mario Ricci (1983)
as Bernard Fontana
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
as Carlo Levi
Letters from Marusia (1975)
as Gregorio
Tre colonne in cronaca (1990)
as Alberto Landolfi
On the Tiger's Back (1961)
as Papaleo
Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969)
as Renno
Spanish Western (2015)
as The Indian (archive footage)
One Way or Another (1976)
as M.
A Man for Burning (1962)
as Salvatore
A Boy from Calabria (1987)
as Felice
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
The Seven Cervi Brothers (1968)
as Aldo Cervi
The Moro Affair (1986)
as Aldo Moro
Seasons of Our Love (1966)
as Leonardo Varzi
I Am Afraid (1977)
as Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano
Under Ten Flags (1960)
as Samuel Braunstein
The Violent Four (1968)
as Piero Cavallero
Summer Night (1963)
as Alberto
Reflections on a Political Cinema (1978)
as Self - Interviewee
Many Wars Ago (1970)
as Lt. Ottolenghi
Phaedra (1957)
as Ippolito
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
The Terrorist (1963)
as Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere
Funes, a Great Love (1993)
as El tano Bérgami
Forgotten Activism (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
La strada più lunga (1965)
as Michele
Documents on Giuseppe Pinelli (1970)
as Self / Reenactor (uncredited)
The Felling of the Forest (1963)
as Guglielmo
Festival dell’Unità 1972 (1973)
as self
Banderas, the Tyrant (1993)
as Tirano Banderas
The Suspect (1975)
as Emilio
Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli (1970)
as Self
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Apollon: una fabbrica occupata (1969)
as Narrator (voice)
Stark System (1980)
as Stark
La foresta pietrificata (1959)
Actor
Summit (1968)
as Paolo
Pestalozzi's Mountain (1989)
as Pestalozzi
Saul (1959)
as David
Caravaggio (1967)
as Caravaggio
A Simple Story (1991)
as Carmelo Franzò
La tenda in piazza (1972)
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
A Gangstergirl (1966)
as Jascha Freud
Rosi About Eboli (2022)
as Self